Tag: bunhill fields

• A Tombstone for a Long Neglected Grave

  

  History is a peculiar thing. On Sunday 12th August 2018 over five hundred people gathered to see the unveiling of the exact location of the grave of William Blake. They were taking part in a ceremony which seems to happen every century – although not for the reason you’d expect. I’ve been doing cemetery blogs…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 14, 2018

  art, Event, Heritage, History, literature, Performance, Visits

  Artist, bunhill fields, Etcher, Event, Gathering, history, London, Poet, poetry, William Blake

• A Gangster’s Paradise

  

  by Sheldon The people whose houses backed on to Chingford Mount Cemetery would be forgiven for thinking that the Resurrectionists had returned, early in the morning of the 15th of June 1934. Flickering torches slowly meandered their way through the darkness, the light catching the odd headstone here and there. Their flickering light barely illuminating some…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  April 20, 2016

  London, Murder, People, Photography, Visits

  bunhill fields, Campo Santo, Cemetery, Chingford, Crime, Dissenter, E4, Gangster, Krays, London, Murder, Pollocks Toy museum, Suicide, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow

• Songs of Innocence and Experience:- Meeting William Blake and Disappointment at Bunhill

  I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every blackening…

  irismacro

  June 16, 2014

  London, Visits

  Bunhill, bunhill fields, bunting, Burial Ground, Cemetery, john wesley, London, wesleys chapel